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Delirious Milton

Gordon Teskey
Delirious Milton Book PDF

Author : Gordon Teskey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674044302

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Composed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. The argument of Delirious Milton, inspired in part by the architectural theorist Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York, is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world. The oscillation itself, continually affirming and negating the presence of spirit, of a force beyond the human, is what Gordon Teskey means by delirium. He concludes that the modern artist, far from being characterized by what Benjamin (after Baudelaire) called "loss of the aura," is invested, as never before, with a shamanistic spiritual power that is mediated through art.

Milton Across Borders and Media

Islam Issa,Angelica Duran
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Author : Islam Issa,Angelica Duran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192844743

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Milton Across Borders and Media by Islam Issa,Angelica Duran Pdf

This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.

Milton and the Ineffable

Noam Reisner
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Author : Noam Reisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199572625

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Milton and the Ineffable by Noam Reisner Pdf

Situating Milton's poetics of ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology, this text reassesses Milton's poetry in light of the literary and conceptual problems posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation.

The New Milton Criticism

Peter C. Herman,Elizabeth Sauer
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Author : Peter C. Herman,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107019225

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The New Milton Criticism by Peter C. Herman,Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work.

Milton's Late Poems

Lee Morrissey
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Author : Lee Morrissey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009197083

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Milton's Late Poems by Lee Morrissey Pdf

Lee Morrissey explores how Milton's major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.

Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero

Christopher Bond
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Author : Christopher Bond
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531310

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Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero by Christopher Bond Pdf

This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poems’ primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism in classical, Medieval, and Italian Renaissance literature, investigates the ways in which Spenser and Milton adapted the model, and demonstrates how the Jesus of Paradise Regained can be seen as the culmination of this tradition. Challenging the opposition between “Calvinist,” “allegorical” Spenser and “Arminian,” “dramatic” Milton, this book offers a new account of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition. Arguing that Spenser influenced Milton in fundamental ways, Bond establishes a firmer structural and thematic link between the two authors, and shows how they transformed a strongly antifeminist genre by the addition of a crucial, although at times ambivalent, heroine. He also proposes solutions to some of the most difficult and controversial theological cruxes posed by these poems, in particular Spenser’s attitude to free will and Milton’s to the Trinity. By providing a deeper understanding of the religious agendas of these epics, this book encourages a rapprochement between scholarly approaches that are too narrowly concerned with either theology or poetics.

Milton Now

C. Gray,E. Murphy
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Author : C. Gray,E. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137383105

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By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.

The Equality of Flesh

Brent Dawson
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Author : Brent Dawson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501775673

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The Equality of Flesh by Brent Dawson Pdf

The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an ambivalent and profoundly bodily condition. Everyone was made from the same lowly matter and, as a result, shared the same set of vulnerabilities, needs, and passions. Responding to the political upheavals of colonialism and the intellectual turmoil of new natural philosophies, leading figures of the English Renaissance, including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare, anxiously imagined that bodily commonality might undermine differences of religion, race, and class. As the period progressed, later authors developed the revolutionary possibilities of bodily equality even as new ideas of fixed racial inequality emerged. Some—like the utopian radical Gerrard Winstanley and the republican poet John Milton—challenged political absolutism through the idea of humans as base, embodied creatures. Others—like the heterodox philosopher Margaret Cavendish, the French theologian Isaac La Peyrère, and the libertine Cyrano de Bergerac—offered limited yet important interrogations of racial paradigms. This moment, Dawson shows, would pass, as bodily equality was marginalized in the liberal theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. In its place, during the Enlightenment pseudoscientific racism would come to anchor inequality in the body. Contending with the lasting implications of material equality for modernity, The Equality of Flesh shows how increasingly vehement notions of racial difference eclipsed a nascent sense of human commonality rooted in the basic stuff of life.

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost

Jonathon Shears
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Author : Jonathon Shears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351882439

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The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost by Jonathon Shears Pdf

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.

Milton and the Politics of Public Speech

Helen Lynch
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Author : Helen Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317095941

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Milton and the Politics of Public Speech by Helen Lynch Pdf

Using Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to dramatise the struggle between ’good’ and ’bad’ oratory, and to fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance. Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton’s political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his ’Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.

Milton's Inward Liberty

Filippo Falcone
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Author : Filippo Falcone
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780227903797

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Milton's Inward Liberty by Filippo Falcone Pdf

What is true liberty? Milton labors to provide an answer, and his answer becomes the ruling principle behind both prose works and poetry. The scholarly community has largely read liberty in Milton retrospectively through the spectacles of liberalism. In so doing, it has failed to emphasize that the Christian paradigm of liberty speaks of an inward microcosm, a place of freedom whose precincts are defined by man's fellowship with God. All other forms of freedom relate to the outer world, be they freedom to choose the good, absence of external constraint and oppression, or freedom of alternatives. None of these is true liberty, but they are pursued by Milton in concert with true liberty. Milton's Inward Liberty attempts to address the bearing of true liberty in Milton's work through the magnifying glass of seventeenth-century theology.

Milton's Theological Process

Jason A. Kerr,Kerr
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Author : Jason A. Kerr,Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198875086

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Milton's Theological Process by Jason A. Kerr,Kerr Pdf

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that reading in this way involves attention to the complex material state of the manuscript along with Milton's varying modes of engagement with scripture and various theological interlocutors, and reveals that Milton's approach to theology underwent significant change in the course of his work on the treatise. Initially, Milton set out to use Ramist logic to organize scripture in a way that drew out its intrinsic doctrinal structure. This method had two unintended consequences: it drove Milton to an antitrinitarian understanding of the Son of God, and it obliged him to reflect on his own authority as an interpreter and to develop an ecclesiology capable of sifting divine truth from human error. Consequently, Milton's Theological Process explores the complex interplay between Milton's preconceived theological ideas and his willingness to change his mind as it develops through the layers of revision in the manuscript. Kerr concludes by considering Paradise Lost as a vehicle for Milton's further reflection on the foundations of theology--and by showing how even the epic presents challenges to the fruits of these reflections. Reading Milton theologically means more than working to ascertain his doctrinal views; it means attending critically to his messy process of evaluating and rethinking the doctrinal views to which his prior study had led him.

Milton's Modernities

Feisal G Mohamed,Patrick Fadely
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Author : Feisal G Mohamed,Patrick Fadely
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810135352

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Milton's Modernities by Feisal G Mohamed,Patrick Fadely Pdf

The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. The original essays in Milton’s Modernities undertake such exploration in the context of the work of John Milton, a poet whose prodigious energies simultaneously point to the past and future. Bristling with insights on Milton’s major works, Milton’s Modernities offers fresh perspectives on the thinkers central to our theorizations of modernity: from Lucretius and Spinoza, Hegel and Kant, to Benjamin and Deleuze. At the volume's core is an embrace of the possibilities unleashed by current trends in philosophy, variously styled as the return to ethics, or metaphysics, or religion. These make all the more visible Milton’s dialogues with later modernity, dialogues that promise to generate much critical discussion in early modern studies and beyond. Such approaches necessarily challenge many prevailing assumptions that have guided recent Milton criticism—assumptions about context and periodization, for instance. In this way, Milton’s Modernities powerfully broadens the historical archive beyond the materiality of events and things, incorporating as well intellectual currents, hybrids, and insights.

Milton and Music

Seth Herbst
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Author : Seth Herbst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000881547

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Milton and Music by Seth Herbst Pdf

Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe—even the human soul—is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton’s visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton’s own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet’s political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary.

Johnson's Milton

Christine Rees
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Author : Christine Rees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139485920

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Johnson's Milton by Christine Rees Pdf

Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.